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The official site for Los Angeles based award winning playwright and screenwriter Arthur M. Jolly.
Here, you can learn all about Arthur, download free monologues for auditions and classes, purchase playscripts, and get all the info on past productions, screenplays and upcoming events. Welcome!
SInce this site was created,
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The vast majority of hits come from actors looking for free monologues to download. Enjoy! Let me know if you're auditioning using one, I'd love to hear all about it.
I'm a member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.
Latest News
Posted May, 2009
News! "Grumble Soup and Other Stories" is now available for Kindle!
The NYC Playwrights Monologue Project will be producing The Bricklayer
BIG, BIG NEWS!
My latest play Tjurjága won the JOINING SWORD AND PEN competition!
Read all about it at Broadway World or at Showbiz Chicago!
Babes With Blades, with SAFD fight master David Woolley, announced Arthur M. Jolly as the 2009-10 winner of Joining Sword and Pen, their playwriting competition devoted to increasing the number of quality scripts featuring fighting roles for women, on April 8, 2009, 7 p.m., at T's, 5025 N. Clark in Chicago.
Jolly's script is a drama titled Tjurjága (pronounced Tyoor-YAH-gah, Russian slang for jail), which is set in an inmates' bunkhouse of a Siberian gulag in 1949 post-war Soviet Union.
The winning script was inspired by, and incorporates the image Film Noir by Chicago artist Kristine Borcz (pictured here). Jolly will receive a $1,000 cash prize, and a full production of the script in spring 2010.
MORE NEWS! My short screenplay EIGHT BALL made TOP TEN FINALIST in the Pavaline Short Screenplay Competition.
A brand new radio play - my first foray into radio - Thicker than Water will be produced by the Shoestring Radio Theatre, scheduled to broadcast Wednesday August 26 at 9:30 PM Pacific time on KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco, and other public radio stations across the country!
Recent Productions!
THE FINE PRINT, about the Devil tempting an Electrical Systems Designer to create a particular circuit for him, just won the AUDIENCE FAVORITE award at the New Play Festival and Competition!







